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Bewick Hill is a Bronze Age rock art site located in Northumberland, featuring a collection of cup and ring marked stones that exemplify the rock carvings tradition of prehistoric Britain. The site comprises natural rock outcrops bearing multiple examples of cup marks, ring marks, and associated linear motifs, which were pecked or hammered into the stone surface during the Bronze Age, likely between 3000 and 1500 BCE. These carved designs, concentrated on exposed rock faces across the hillside, represent significant evidence of ritual or ceremonial activity in the region during the second and third millennia before the Common Era. The weathered condition of the carvings and their location on open moorland reflect both the antiquity of the site and its persistence as a landscape feature of considerable antiquarian and archaeological interest.
Bewick Hill cup and ring marked rocks, Old Bewick is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1006581. View the official record →
Bewick Hill is a Bronze Age rock art site located in Northumberland, featuring a collection of cup and ring marked stones that exemplify the rock carvings tradition of prehistoric Britain. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1006581.
Bewick Hill cup and ring marked rocks, Old Bewick is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1006581.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Round cairn, 190m south-east of Titlington Pike (5.8 km), Defended settlement, 750m east of Titlington Hall Farm (7 km), Romano-British farmstead 1km south-west of East Bolton (7.6 km).
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